“What I like about working with Bradley is that he always likes different hair looks,” Bradley Cooper’s groomer, Natalia Bruschi, recently shared on Instagram. After looking through photos of Cooper out promoting “A Star is Born” over the last couple of weeks, we can confirm that Bruschi is not messing around. Bradley Cooper might not be much of a style chameleon—the man loves a good blue suit—but he is a man of many haircuts. In the last week alone, he’s rifled through them all—hair, locale, and tailoring all in alignment. It’s entertaining, and a good reminder to change things up yourself from time to time. To get the creative juices flowing, here’s a look at Bradley Cooper’s recent hair journey—or, rather, all five of them.
If you’re going to wear a powder blue suit, you need to spend some time in the powder room getting yourself spruced up too. A hair-dryer, small round brush, and pomade or paste were likely employed here—you just don’t get volume or definition that glorious from a shake-and-go styling routine. Bonus points to Bruschi for leaving a little bit of stubble in there so the whole thing didn’t look too groomed.
Different three-piece suit, slightly different ‘do. This looks like the work of a heavier, shinier hair product—or perhaps it was Cooper rolling out with dirtier hair. Either way, what this look helpfully demonstrates is that if you want to become the old Hollywood (or old-timey bartender) version of yourself, all you have to do is flatten out your fade.
A velvet suit calls for an equally touchable hairstyle, that’s just common sense. If this is how Cooper’s hair air dries, he is even luckier than we previously thought. Men of lesser hair gifts, you might try drying your hair with your hands instead of a brush and using a very light hand with product. Let fuzz be fuzz.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Bradley Cooper, not-at-all-secret secret agent. To attempt this level of sinister swagger, some guys might stick four fingers straight into a tub of L.A. Looks. But, nah, all you need is some flexible hold hair gel and a really great suit to pull off this move.
We call this look “true Brad” because it combines everything that’s great about Bradley Cooper’s hair—the spikiness, the volume, the dashing part, the tidy sides—into one handsome look. Unlike the previous style, it’s also the kind of vibe that works as well with flip-flops as it does with Italian tailoring. Not that we’d expect Mr. Cooper himself to be so predictable.